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General Topics / no more cooling woes. info inside with pics.

« on: October 16, 2008, 06:05:41 AM »

thanks i thought so but when i read others saying they run the fan from that it does no make sense to me. So what i did is ok then just cut the aux fan wires and splice them into the new fans wire? i looked all over and could not find pics to which wires to splice oh well it works just dont want to mess anything up.
Thanks for the help guys maybe i will take some pics of the wires that i used.

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General Topics / no more cooling woes. info inside with pics.

« on: October 15, 2008, 10:30:09 PM »

I did not use the heat sink. All i did was cut the wires going in to the stock aux and splice them in to the electric fan. The brown is the ground and the black is power the red not being used. And i put a 20a inline fuse form fan to aux wires. If i did it wrong could someone let me know. Plus i am not sure were the thermostat switch is.

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General Topics / no more cooling woes. info inside with pics.

« on: October 15, 2008, 08:14:05 PM »

so was it air bubbles or are you saying the A/C system blocked a good amount of air from the rad?

 I am not sure since i took out the a/c the same time i did the last bleed of the system . But i am sure it does help to remove all that stuff from the front to help air get to the rad. All in all it runs great now i am very happy with it
 As for mods it has braided brake lines, markd chip, m3 ca with tree house racing ca bushings, 328is injectors .

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General Topics / no more cooling woes. info inside with pics.

« on: October 15, 2008, 06:04:46 PM »

So after i posted up what was going on with my car i went back to it and bleed the system over again. In all i bleed it about 5 times. I took off the clutch fan and i removed all the a/c including aux fan condenser ect. I drove the car with no fans and it would not overheat so i think it was just air bubbles in the system .
  But i allready ordered the electric fan so i just installed it for more cooling then the clutch fan. it is a 16" flex-a-lite fan with 2500 cfm. I hooked it up to the aux wires with a over ride so i can turn it on if i want to.


Here are some of the car.


and the 325is

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Engine + Driveline / Fan Clutch Rediculousness

« on: October 14, 2008, 06:50:21 PM »

That sucks man i am doing the same thing taking off the clutch fan to install a electric fan.
 I read all these horror storys about trying to take them off so when that came up i was ready for the worse but in my amazement it  came of super easy must have been not put on tight .
  All well, i have seen some one cut it off before with a saw but that is a last try kind of deal. Good luck man.

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Engine + Driveline / cooling woes. new to the m42s

« on: October 13, 2008, 06:25:50 PM »

ya i might have to try and bleed it again once i get my new fan in. Thanks for your help guys this cooling system is a pain in the ass. I have checked around and there is like 5 ways to bleed the system .Guess i just have to find the one that work best for my set up.

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Engine + Driveline / cooling woes. new to the m42s

« on: October 12, 2008, 06:57:51 PM »

well i am going to get a electric fan installed tomorrow then try it all over again hopefully that will fix it .

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Engine + Driveline / cooling woes. new to the m42s

« on: October 12, 2008, 04:26:00 PM »

Ok new to the m42 but not to e30s. I have been looking on here for about 2 months and it has helped a lot.
 Well i fixed tons of stuff on my car i did the mess under the intake clean up and it idles great. The heater was leaking so i replaced the core and it is good.
Then all new thermostat ,water pump , coolant flush . I did a compression check and it was good all across.
 Well it over heats there is 2 things i thing it could be it . when it does it gos up slow has not hit the red yet but if i did not stop it it would. One thing is when i do the newspaper in the fan it will stop. Second is when i bleed it when i rev it bubbles keep coming out of the tank no matter how long i bleed it. But no coolant in the oil. Plus no hot heat out of the heater.
     so could it be just the fan could that make it over heat if it is not strong enough? Or any other help please . i am just so fed up with this thing if i dont fix it soon i am going to just going to do a swap.
  Thanks, jason